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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Rugby to
Leamington LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth LMS Route: Rugby to
Leicester LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough
Rugby Shed: lnwrrm2621c
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Schematic plan showing the configuration of the lines around the
passenger station and the two sheds. The above arrangement shows that gap
between No 1 and No 2 sheds was used for a 'Repairing Workshop' a description
often confused with the three road 'Erecting Workshop' seen at the bottom and
wrongly described here as the Repairing Workshop. Between the two sheds are two
turntables, one allegedly 50 foot diameter and the other 60 foot diameter.
According to Hawkins and Reeve in volume one of LMS Engine Sheds - The
L&NWR when built the shed was equipped with two 40 foot diameter
turntables and was only equipped with a 55 foot turntable (located to the left
of the GC bridge) as part of the 1930s modernisation of Rugby's facilities.
However when comparing image 'lnwrrm946' with image
'lnwrrm2529', the first being pre-1933
modernisation whilst the latter was post-modernisation, its clear that whilst
the two are not the same turntable they are both on the otherside of the GC
bridge to the sheds.
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